, visit you at harvard?ately. >> and travis, has your mother had a chance to visit you at yale? >> not at all. same story as justin. just the photos. >> well, listen, we're going to make sure that your moms can visit you at college. so you just let us know when they want to do it and when the schedule works, and we'll make sure that that's easy for them to do. okay? >> thank you. >> thank you. yeah. >> all right. justin porter and travis reginal, great guys. thank you very much for joining me. and travis, there's more for you. in a very special "rewrite." travis will show us a better way of saying thank you and a better way of saying i love you. because sometimes there are better ways to say those things. but only a poet can do that. travis reginal's beautiful poetry is next in the "rewrite." [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] ho

>> marshall ganz: boy, i you know -- well, first of all, thinking i can get into harvard in the first place from bakersfield, leaving harvard to go work in mississippi is -- >> bill moyers: you left before you finished your studies? >> marshall ganz: yeah, i had a year to go.

and that, i mean, it was a dating site for harvard. i agreed to help them out with it--to help them, right? i mean, it wasn't a job. they weren't paying me. i wasn't hired by them or anything like that. and then, the idea that i would then go work on something completely different, like facebook, and that they would be upset about this all these years later is kinda mind-boggling for me. now, i mean, this is another thing that i think the movie really missed is, i mean, they make it seem like this whole lawsuit is such a huge part of facebook's history. i've probably spent less than two weeks of my time worried about this lawsuit at all, right? >> maybe you should've worried about it a little more. [laughs] >> maybe i should have early on, right? but i guess the point that i'm trying to make is, this has never been a big deal to facebook or its evolution. >> do you feel any, any remorse at all about the twins or anything that happened with them? >> i mean, after all this time, i feel bad that they still feel bad about it. >> kara swish

lot of mistakes and i was there right there twenty percent of the graduating classes of yale and harvard applied to teach for america and most did rejected work before sure these graduates doing the speciesism well so teach for america is a great program it takes recent college graduates from some of the best universities across the country and puts them in inner city and rural classrooms for a two year period and i think what's interesting about teach for america is that you know about sixty percent of people stay in education but of those who leave education they remain education advocates so right now with students first i travel across the country and when i'm in state houses i'll meet the governor of policy advisor and that person happens to be teach for america a lot more somebody who's working for a foundation giving money to education so i'd say that that that experience is so impactful that keeps most of the people in that in that orbit i think obama is in tune with. i think and i am a little biased here because i am a democrat but i will say this i never thought that i've lived

diversity so yes we shouldn't lose it no i don't think so does it make a difference if you go to harvard then if you go to colorado state. well look you know that when you are in the business world your connections make a lot of difference the reputation of the institution of higher education that you went to can read you know a certain way to employers and so you know when you look at resumes and you see harvard on there that's an impressive thing and so i think again it's not that harvard is right for every single kid but certainly all kids should know what their options are and be aware of the impact that's happened college isn't for everyone i mean some people want to be electrician you know college isn't for everyone but at the same time you know what we need to acknowledge is the fact that we can't make decisions for kids too early in their life right what used to happen the american education system is early on kids with well you know would say well you're college material you're not and usually that was based on demographic factors or a color your skin was or what kind of family

does it make a difference if you go to harvard and if you go to colorado state. well look you know that when you are in the business world your connections make a lot of difference the reputation of the institution of higher education that you went to can read you know a certain way to employers and so you know when you look at resumes and you see harvard on there that's an impressive thing and so i think again it's not that harvard is right for every single kid but certainly all kids should know what their options are and be aware of the impact of those after college isn't for everyone i mean some people want to be electricians yeah you know college isn't for everyone but at the same time you know what we need to acknowledge is the fact that we can't make decisions for kids too early in their life right what used to happen the american education system is early on kids with well you know would say well you're college material you're not and usually that was based on demographic factors what color your skin was or what kind of family wealth you had etc and so one

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michael from harvard who can't be with us today.ana goldman from the usc schaeffer center who also can't be with us today. anupam jena. on our panel, and the audience and thomas phillips from university of chicago who could not be with us today. please join me in welcoming our panelists, our moderator and our discussants. [applause] >> thank you very much, henry. i'm joe and those at the american enterprise institute, ma and i have the honor of introducing the panel. before i say a little something about him i wanted to quote what i think is the single, clearest, sharpest statements about the state of health policy i've read in a long time. it's in the beginning of this report. this is the report we're talking about, best of both worlds, uniting universal coverage and personal choice in health care. this statement is, at its heart the current health policy approach first destabilize the insurance marketplace and then relies on a bright of stopgap measures to prevent its collapse. if that isn't the american way i don't know what is.

because the value of getting into harvard is that you got into harvard, and on 5% of people get to do that. >> it's not what you learn there, it's the fact that you have this, you are an elite. >> once you get accepted, you're like mark zuckerberg, you can leave immediately and you'll be fine. >> or donate. >> or go on and on. but the point is, we need to have a conversation about college for everyone, because we created this system of mass higher education in the united states. everyone is supposed to get a degree. now, how are they supposed to afford that? >> well, one of the things that is happening here, and i'm curious to hear all of you weighing in on this, is how much of this is about tuition increases at public university? when there's two conversations? people tend to talk about like college and you get this very elite conversation among people that are looking to send their kids to harvard university of chicago. but a very, very, very small slice of americans are going to college there. the bulk of americans are either going to community colleges or if they're going to four-

it was very day from across all of harvard county and cecil county.e'll cross the susquehanna from the tide water marina. in annapolis, a little sun at times on the severn but a chop. 79 degrees on the southeast wind at six miles an hour. by the way, a chance for the storm in the afternoon at left on an isolated basis. so you have to be careful with that. we'll call it the uv index podium. humidity will be high. temperatures are moderately warm tonight. 81 in hagerstown. 82 in easton but. 0s on the map. winds are from the south. that continues to bring up the humidity level and new we're back to pick summer levels, not in terms of temperatures but humidity. the real feel temps are climbing because that's are in the of 70. it may doctor briefly as we lose some of the moisture and dupe and an increase into the delay tomorrow. so i know tough air days here. i think there will be some shower action overnight, limited rain, maybe damp, maybe rain on your windshield, your car. did the to i would that off or hit the wipers quick. otherwise, we're relatively

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or harvard or stanford or -- i mean, you see what i'm saying. arkansas state. >> think of it as engineers. engineers is a degree in problem solving. the program is biased heavily toward engineers because they can iterate -- >> that's where they come from. >> that's right. so it doesn't matter what school. we look for people who have shown a strong record of success. typically, in engineering or computer science because in a ten-week period they can actually accomplish a ton, scott. it's amazing. that's what's amazing about these young kids. >> the program -- sorry. the program -- >> so just curious, very few spots. how many kids actually apply? and what's -- >> the ratio. >> how many do you turn away? >> oh, gosh. so we took about 30 this year. nine teams represent 30 kids. 300 apps. so if you take two or three average, i don't know, about 600 or 700 kids apply. >> okay. i'm sorry. >> no, no. the program has been going on now for seven years. entrepreneurship has changed. technology has changed. how have the students changed? have you seen any d

are a democratic power couple from bright blue new york by way the bright blue california by way of harvard. to go along with his many, many millions and his liberal politics, mr. hughes last year bought a liberal magazine, the new republic, where you can find headlines like, new data that shows why the next republican nominee is screwed, and obstructing obama isn't in house republican's self-interest. john mccain, undecided 2016 voter, an exclusive interview. republican senator john mccain sitting down for an interview with the lefty smart kid of the new republic would be news in and of itself. check out what he says. the magazine asked him about the painful budget cuts forced by republicans in congress. the ones that were never supposed to happen. john mccain voted for those cuts which were supposed to scare congress into reaching an agreement, so they would never actually take place. were you surprised that republicans allowed sques drags? senator mccain, it is the worst vote i have cast in many years. senator mccain talking to a liberal magazine, openly regretting his vote, i think for

he has now returned to the harvard law school.hank you, fareed. >> so you remember -- forget about these businessmen whom you may regard as, you know, kind of irredeemable republican. the economist magazine, which twice endorsed president obama, had a cover, which i'm sure you saw, which was called "overregulated america." and the argument is whether it's health care, whether it's finance, whether it's energy, the huge amount of new regulation, businesses are trying to figure it out. is that fair? >> i should say that i worked very well with the business community in the obama administration and they were great partners in a lot of the things we did and they had great ideas. numbers don't lie. the number of rules issued in the first term of the obama administration actually lower. the number in the first term of the bush administration. the bush administration wasn't thought to be regulation happy. also the cost of regulation in the first term of the obama administration very much in accord with standard numbers over the last 25 y

i went to harvard on a scholarship. i was amused. they have mahi-mahi, not pal a bit. -- hal a bit. it is like a four star resort. you do not have to price kids out of education. >> even penn state is not cheap anymore, is it? >> it might be like when he thousand dollars. >> this is another example of -- $20,000. >> this is another example of the federal government trying to solve a problem it largely created. they have been pumping money into the universities, who raise notion, but there is decrease in demand because it is not a free market out there. in witha wants to come all these criteria, the graduation rate, what kind of jobs people get after graduating from various universities. governmentt the should do is withdraw the not floodquired and universities with money or regulation. >> harvard has huge endowments. they can afford to give a lot of financial help. smaller schools do not have those endowments and they have to charge. >> i think his goals are correct. but i think what they are trying to institute is not feasible. colleges like u.s. news has been doing is cost prohibi

harvard school of public health. you also write for the new yorker. you've got a new article called "slow ideas: some innovations spread fast. how do you speed the ones that don't?" here's one idea of how to speed things up. shorter titles. ideas get right across, okay. what do you mean? if an idea is good, won't it naturally just spread fast? >> you would think so. stephen: i do. 19th century i started with lots of ideas but two. one is the idea of discovery of anesthesia, freedom from pain during surgery >> stephen: like ether or color form. >> exactly. right around that same thing, ant septics, lister showing the way to stop infections >> stephen: spraying listerine around the room. >> anesthesia spread in weeks on to every capital around europe. it was across the united states in every hospital in seven years >> stephen: nobody wants to be in pain. >> you don't want infection stephen: but you can't see infection. >> you want instant gratification not only if you're a patient, you're free from pain. but if you're

when you get into harvard you go and i came from. you know i came from a family where i was the first guy to go to college at all and my dad was a singer in a band and i was his how we made our money but also his passion and i used to love it i wanted to be a singer i want to be good and i was a guitar player and i would play in his band is there really is i don't know nine ten years old i would substitute for a guitar player if you needed it and i had a band in middle school and i had a band in high school but i realized i was going to make it and that i wasn't good enough and enough to give him a voice i was in a really good musician so acting kind of was the next thing to get type of authority figures you think that's going to look i think so i mean certainly you know people always act as if that's absurd a big problem i know actors always like to complain about it but early on if it was it was a good source of living you know it's always cops and t.v.'s of those cops in film so coming out to l.a. with literally no money at all. i

maybe it's you guys from harvard. >> it's been said that harvard has more overblown egos than bad whiskeyne of the things as i was watching again your conversation about your experience in 1999 with new york city police, and there is an amazing film out right now, "fruitvale station," about oscar grant. down on the subway, you and your two friends, very similar to that moment of oscar grant who ends up being shot by an oakland transit authority police officer. have you seen the film yet? >> i'm seeing it tomorrow night. i talked to dolores huerta who started the farm workers movement with cesar chavez. she talked about the film being powerful right now. with trayvon martin and this new oscar grant film, big out to forest whitaker for producing that, we have a national consciousness that's moving to a place of urgency and we need to do something about this. it's been here, it's been with us. the grassroots movement that's rising right now has the capacity to link with policy and to create the kind of structural change that we need to have happen in this country. >> maybe former president g

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we have a chapter in the book called university of can trays. >> anybody can step through harvard. but in the boston area but when you can go to alcatraz. that's right. he was a high school dropout who earned his ged while he was in the air force. where he educate himself was in l can trays. he boasted he read a book a day. became well read. read military history. mack when they hear the -- i think he's in the cleveland crew. [laughter] he knew who he was. took the lesson well. one of the interesting things you could ask about the family dynamic. he's in prison. his brother, billy, at the time is boston college of rule. law school. he's five years younger and determined to help him go straight. host lobbying while at law school to get whitey moved closer to home. get him early parole. and he enlists the dean of the boston college of law school, the to become whitey's prison pen pal. he's writing to whitey. it looks good for whitey. it look like he's trying to turn his life around. so you see this priest who is writing to help him. even within the prison system to do well, he also g

when i was in law school at harvard and we had taken over the president's office at harvard for a week, it was a good friend who vacated his office and 30 of us stay in the administration building protesting harvard's holding of gulf wheelchair's and its portfolio because of what it was doing to assist portugal in its war ismaking against angola and mozambique, efforts to win independence from portugal and danny was a real stump speaker on these issues at the time, i think this investment is always the good tool to use in trying to to win social goals. i don't think the south africans were able to understand anything that we were saying as long as we were saying something was done just or wrong but when they saw it affecting their bottom line and we were able to get past punishing sanctions, then we knew the beginning of the end was at hand so i always think economic strategies are good to employ. at the time we were being told all the time what we were suggesting wouldn't work, the assistant secretary of state for africa was saying constructive engagement was the best way to go forwar

he goes to harvard and you didn't stop with the per sis tens. and basically change the belief of what medicine was viewed in the states. how? several factor in hindsight. i specialized i did end crinology. it's the study of here mono. then -- hormone. for a short while at the va hospital i was rotating under the dr. see more, who was the president of the end crin society at that time. he was a neuroend crinnologist. he was just like he said. we had brilliant mentor. he was absolutely brilliant and identifying hormones we didn't know too much about at that time. hormone in the hype thalamus like stimulating growth factor. i had a degree at the time -- colleague at her time. later on went 0 to become the chief of brain chemistry at -- [inaudible] she's now at georgetown university. she identified something called. tide -- [inaudible] he boss won the nobel prize for identifying neurochemical. one day candace said to me, these things that we're looking at, because there was a new technique. the dr. was a va physician and won the nobel prize for disc

professor at harvard university, and this is as much a question of economics and public policy as itets. living wage verse as tough economy where businesses are trying to make it, they say we can't compete with wages that are that much higher. how are we to think about this? >> well, it's a very contentious question. there is a fair amount of evidence that raises the minimum wage won't hurt employment that much. but there are limits on it. i think what happens if you do it too much is firms find ways to economize on workers and it starts to make a big difference. they find ways to substitute higher skilled workers for the lower skills worker because they have to pay so much. so i think there is a case for what president obama says on raising minimum wage. on the other hand, some of these more extreme proposals can backfire. >> when this is done regionally, it started to some prospers others hurt. long beach's issue is they do this just within our city limits you will find hotels -- hotels outside the city limits that are not subject to this. but can charge less, and employ more peopl

he went to harvard, and then from harvard he went to paris to the school of paris. and by the school of paris, all of the lessons that paris has a place as an experienced in teacher. he hung out there. he preferred the presence of poets. u-lite to read the western classic poets, but he was also exposed, he knew picasso. he knew the world was changing at that particular time, modernism had begun to happen there. and he was very susceptible to that. so he was exposed to a certain kind of new aesthetic, which ultimately was reflected in the way he used the camera because he saw the camera as one of the true modern art methodologies, a machine made picture would more readily eliminate his presence from the image, or at least people thought that. and that was part of the objective was to make a picture that was so pure in its descriptive power that you were not distracted by the presence, the ego presents of the artist that maybe. now, of course, i think that's in and of itself deceptive, because his artistry was actually just there in plain sight. he knew how to keep hi

we have a chapter in the book called university of alcatraz. >> anybody can step through harvard when you're in boston, but when you can go to alcatraz, that's -- >> exactly right. he actually, you know, was a high school dropout who earned the ged in the air force, but where he educated himself was in alcatraz where he boasted that he read a book a day, well read, read military history, read, and kevin jokes that -- >> most wise guy thinks -- they hear, you know, i think he's in the cleveland crew. whitey knew who he was. >> he knew. >> tookless sops well. >> you asked about the family dynamic. whitey, in prison, his brother, billy, at the time, is at boston college law school, and he's really, you know, he's five years younger than whitey, determinedded to try to help him go straight, and he's lobbying, you know, while at law school to get whitey moved closer, a prison closer to home, get him early parole, and enlists the dean of the boston college law school, to become the prison pen pal, writing to whitey. he's getting letters from priests and looks like he's trying to turn his li

he is an economist at harvard and won the macarthur genius grant last year. jeff sachs is the author of "the price of civilization." megan mccardle is a journalist who has written for the atlantic and scott winship is a fellow at the brookings institution. welcome all. raj, what did you think as one of the authors of this fascinating study, what are the big takeaways that you get out of it? >> so the basic fact from this study is that there's a great deal of variation within the u.s. in rates of upward income mobility. so traditionally people often perceive the u.s. as the land of opportunity. as you were saying, recently people have become concerned that upward mobility is declining in the u.s. relative to other countries. what we're showing in this study is actually you should think about the u.s. very differently. there are some places that are in fact lands of opportunity where children do have high odds of moving from the bottom of the income distribution to the top, places like pittsburgh or san diego or san francisco. and then there are other places li

. >> the only university mentioned are harvard, yale, columbia, stanford. >> this man is start agnew college where you get everything you get from a top tier university but the classes will be online. >> the tuition which is traditionally $40,000 a year would be well under half of that amount. >> class action goes inside san francisco's ambitious new education startup, the minerva project. the governor made good on a promise to overhaul public schools and he's doing it with cash. we want to know who is keeping an eye on the books. >> one of the questions that the public should be asking is how are you spending the money. >>> it's summer. with school work out of the way, bay area kids are tapping into social media. but there are dangers when teens go online from loneliness to sadness and sends a strong message to parents. here's nbc bay area news's jessica aguirre. >> welcome to this class action education special. we begin with a landmark change for public schools and a big political win for governor jerry brown. so big that some say this will define his legacy in california. money w

. >> i grew up here, went to public schools and then went to harvard college and harvard law school. couldn't wait to get back. >> reporter: couldn't wait to get back? >> i could not wait to get back to gary, indiana. >> reporter: her father and grandfather both worked in the steel mills and she herself seems unafraid of putting a little elbow grease into cleaning up her town. madam mayor, you picking up trash, is this going to help save the city of gary? >> absolutely. it's because it's -- you know, sometimes you have to lead by example. >> reporter: it seems simple, maybe even simplistic, but by example, the mayor is trying to show the people of gary they have something worth saving. what's the biggest problem you've got? >> really getting people to believe again. people have seen gary in a certain way for so long that it's hard for them to understand that it can get better, that it will get better. >> reporter: the mayor believes gary has assets worth investing in, so the airport's getting a new runway, millions have been spent spiffing up gary's glorious lakefront, and to fill ga

>> by the way, you go to harvard? >> i went to princeton like harvard. [ laughter ] >> bill: head down like this. >> i didn't learn anything either. >> bill: did you ever he see the football uniform at princeston, embarrassing. john stossel, everybody. talk to charles krauthammer about what should do in syria. that should be interesting. manning wanting sex change treatments in military prison. george zimmerman wanting the state of florida to pay some of its legal bills. ♪ [ villain ] well mr. baldwin... it appears our journey has come to a delightful end. then i better use the capital one purchase eraser to redeem my venture miles for this trip. purchase eraser? it's the easy way to erase any recent travel expense. i just pick a charge, like my flight with a few taps, it's taken care of. impressive baldwin. does it work for hotels? absolutely thank goodness. mrs. villain and i are planning our... you scare me. and i like it. let's go what's in your wallet? >> bill: factor following up segment tonight, looks like the

i went to undergrad at duke university and law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here and have been in here for the last 14 years. i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area because that is where my family is, but i was always interested in sanford cisco in terms of the city, culture, the amazing lgbt community -- i was always interested in san francisco. i am an attorney. i started off in private practice, doing complex litigation. in 2002, i moved to the san francisco city attorney's office, where our work on the trial team, doing trials for the city and doing my own cases and supervising a team of attorneys as well. another huge issue confronting the city is the deferred maintenance on our infrastructure. we have a lot of infrastructure that has been deteriorating because we have not maintained it properly, from our roads to our sewer system to muni. we need to be much more diligent about maintaining our infrastructure. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i have worked on campaigns since i